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Three early Popes, Sts. Victor (reigned 189-199), Miltiades (311-314) and Gelasius (492-496), were Africans, either Negro or mulatto...
Basic Catholic doctrine on the ordering of society was laid down by Pope Gelasius I in a letter to the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I in 494: "Two there are, august Emperor, by which this world is ruled on title of original and sovereign right-the consecrated authority of the priesthood and the royal power." This, says Father Murray, established a "freedom of the church" in the spiritual sphere that served to limit the power of government on the one hand, and on the other brought the moral consensus of the people to bear upon the King...
...with the rise of the absolutist monarchies in the 17th century, Gelasius' finely balanced dyarchy was shattered. Between Pope and King stood a saint who took 309 years to be canonized, Robert Francis Romulus Bellarmine (1542-1621), whose influence reached far beyond his lifetime. His was a time of upheaval; Galileo was turning the old earth-centered cosmos upside down, a new national consciousness was breaking up the Holy Roman Empire, and the "heresy" of Protestantism was digging in throughout the world. As one of the greatest polemical theologians in his church's history, Jesuit Cardinal Bellarmine...
Started by Pope St. Gelasius in the 5th century, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum today generally condemns books on religion not approved by Catholic authorities and books "against faith and morals," including all Communist books. Specifically condemned are some 6,000 works by 4,000 authors (among them: Addison, Balzac, Dumas, father and son, Kant, Spinoza, Voltaire), which Catholics may not read without special permission...
...Caetani, 66, Prince of Teano, 15th Duke of Sermoneta, elder brother of Italy's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Don Gelasio Caetani, first cousin of Britain's present Ambassador to the U. S., Sir Ronald Lindsay, scion of an age-old Roman family which sired Popes Gelasius II and Boniface VIII and author of the monumental history of Mohammedanism, Annalli Dell' Islam; in Vancouver, Canada. Since much of the historic Caetani lands lay in the Pontine Marshes, the Socialist duke conceived enlightened plans for draining them, a project dear for hundreds of years to the Popes...